I work as a phlebotomist for the clinical biochemistry department in a large hospital. My (and my colleagues') primary role is going on rounds across various hospital wards, doing blood draws on their patients and delivering the samples to the bioanalysts/laborants for analysis. I bring a phlebotomist cart with me on the rounds (if you're unfamiliar, it's a cart filled with phlebotomy equipment, such as test tubes and butterfly needles etc.). After each round, we refill the carts. The new test tubes are stored in several closets along the wall of a narrow-ish hallway. During re-fill, the carts are "parked" along the opposite wall. The closet doors open outwards, and for some unfathomable reason, most of them have been hung too low, so we basically have to forcefully drag them across the floor when opening and closing, during which they'll make an incredibly loud, horrendous screeching noise - and they're *heavy*.
Each closet has a handful of different types of test tubes stacked on shelves - so there's a lot of going back and forth for new test tubes during the refill. We're also pretty fast. Because of that, we leave the closet doors open until we no longer need tubes from that particular closet. Normally not a problem - there's plenty of space for "pedestrians" to pass.
The hallway ends with a glass door next to our tube refill location, and it opens with a wave-your-hand sensor on the wall. The carts take up a lot of space along the wall, so people passing through the door from our side have to reach across a cart to get to the sensor. There's literally no more space for the carts anywhere (don't blame us - blame the hospital), so nothing to be done about it. Because of that, we always keep an eye on the hallway in case someone comes walking, and we'll open the door for them. That's just what you do. Basic courtesy.
Anyway, that should do it for context. Now for the story:
I was refilling the carts on my own, since I typically get bored on our end-of-round breaks, and like to get a head-start on preparations for the next round. I notice a hospital porter approaching from the other side of the glass door with a bed, so I move to the side of the cart to make space. I'll have to reach across the cart to place the test tubes in that position, which is awkward, but it's just for a second, so no big deal. Since there's a sensor (two actually, with unhindered access) on the other side of the glass door, there's no need to activate the sensor on my side, but I do it anyway to be nice since the porter is pushing a hospital bed. The door opens, he enters, and I just carry on with the refilling as usual. After several seconds I notice out the corner of my eye that neither porter nor bed has moved any further, but don't think much of it and just keep busy. After several more seconds, this guy is still standing still, so I look up, we lock eyes, and he's literally just staring intensely at me, completely expressionless/stone-faced while not making a sound. Just dead silent.
I'm getting really confused at this point. Silence is turning awkward until he starts slowly walking up to the open closet door, that, it turns out, I momentarily forgot about, never taking his eyes off me, closing it himself, then walking back while still staring at me, until he finally moves on with his bed.
Should I have closed the closet door for him? Yes, naturally. It was in the way. I just forgot - it was beyond my field of vision at the time - these things happen. Also no big deal. But normal people would've just asked me to close it (or even do it themselves, since there's more than enough space for a person to move between the bed and the closet). I didn't say it out loud, but all I could think of was something along the lines of "... how about just using your words?".
Insignificant detail, perhaps, but I actually would've had to move even further to get around the bed to reach the closet than the 3 steps it took this porter to get there.
This guy just expected me to magically read his mind and then rush to deal with what he apparently considered an insurmountable inconvenience, instead of just embracing that we both work in a large hospital with thousands of employees. People get in the way of each other, there's always going to be issues and inconveniences, and it's just something you deal with. You just gotta shrug it off and move on with your day. Or - shockingly, I know - communicate like a normal person (in the unlikely event that this guy was actually mute, he could've just pointed at the closet instead).
... Unless you're this guy, I suppose.
Super entitled. Also pretty damn creepy, staring at me like a dead-eyed shark sizing up its next meal.